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Students\, are you looking to make an impact in the li ves of refugees and immigrants? Join us to explore career and volunteer opp ortunities in the settlement sector and gain advice from early career profe ssionals!
Date: Wednesday\, October 11\, 2017
Time: 5:30
pm – 7:30 pm
Venue: Simon KY Lee Global Lounge\, UBC
Light dinner offered.
UBC Students
\, please register for this event using Career
sOnline. Other students\, please RSVP directly with Sarah Cameron\, Int
ernational Transition Advisor\, at sarah.cameron@ubc.ca
This networking even t connects current students interested in building a career supporting refu gees and other newcomers with early-career professionals in the settlement sector to learn about their own paths\, successes and advice. Professionals from AMSSA\, ISSofBC\, MOSAIC\, PIRS\, WUSC\, SUCCESS\, and others will be joining us!
Students will:
Professionals will:
Panel Speakers< /p>
 | Ali Hussein\,
Settlement Youth Worker - Settlement Program\, ISS of BC < /strong>Ali Hussein is a Settlement Youth Worker at ISSofBC. Besides r unning some of the weekly activities at the Youth Hub\, he is also responsi ble coordinating and developing Multicultural Youth Circle (MY Circle) Prog ram. Over the past three years\, He has worked with various non-profit and public research Canadian and Kenyan universities in exploring innovative wa ys of making post-secondary education available to refugee students in Dada ab\, the largest protracted refugee camp in the world. Ali Hussein enjoys p laying soccer and boxing. |
Amy Cheng\, < /strong>Strategic Initiatives & Integration Manager\, S.U.C.C.E.S. S.
Amy Cheng is the Strategic Initiatives & Integration Mana ger with S.U.C.C.E.S.S.\, one of Canada’s largest immigrant and refugee-ser ving agencies. Amy has a MA in Communications and more than six years of ex perience in the social services sector. In her current role with S.U.C.C.E. S.S.\, she provides support in the areas of research\, community and govern ment engagement\, policy and data analysis\, as well as funding and program development.
Yumi Onozawa\, Manager\, Youth
Programs\, MOSAIC
Yumi Onozawa immigrated to Canada in 1998
from Japan. After teaching comparative religions at the University of Calga
ry\, she moved to Vancouver in 2010. At MOSAIC\, where she currently works\
, Yumi has served diverse immigrant communities\, including seniors\, Tempo
rary Foreign Workers\, and newcomer families in their process of settlement
. She learned their challenges\, listened to their frustration\, and enjoye
d their success stories. With a team of youth workers\, she is now working
with at risk immigrant youth who face difficulties such as language fluency
\, academic standards\, acculturation and integration\, and isolation. Yumi
is dedicated to developing a healthy multicultural community in Greater Va
ncouver.
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This event is part of After the Flight : Community-University Refugee & Migration Symposium hosted by AMSSA\, MOSAIC\, ISSofBC\, Vancouver Association for Sur vivors of Torture (VAST)\, the Vancouver Immigration Partnership\, UBC Comm unity Engagement\, UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues and the School of Pu blic Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC International Student Development\, th e UBC Graduate Student Migration Network\, and the UBC Equity and Inclusion Office.
Find more details on symposium events between October 11th – October 19th here.
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